Research Guides: Film Studies: Finding Books

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Closely watched films : an introduction to the art of narrative film technique
Call Number: WEB
A primer on the narrative structure of filmmaking, which analyzes 14 benchmark movies from D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation to Mike Figgis’s Timecode. (Since each film was selected to represent a significant cinematic movement—expressionism, postmodernism, French New Wave, etc.—the book also doubles as a concise history of film’s most innovative storytellers).
America's film legacy : the authoritative guide to the landmark movies in the National Film Registry
Call Number: WEB
Chronologically catalogues 500 Registry films jumbling Hollywood classics together with obscure art films, cartoon shorts, documentaries, industrial and student films, and newsreel footage.
Philosophy through film
Call Number: PN1995 .L535 2010
Provides guidance in how to watch films with an eye for their philosophical content, helping students become familiar with key topics in all of the major areas in Western philosophy, and helping them master the techniques of philosophical argumentation.

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